Eight dead in Pakistan Sufi shrine attack

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Two children were among those killed in the suspected suicide bombingASIF HASSAN

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The site was full of devotees who had gathered for a weekly meetingRIZWAN TABASSUM

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Women mourn the death of a child outside a Karachi hospital after the bombingASIF HASSAN

Caroline White

Last updated at 1:41AM, October 8 2010

Eight worshipers, including two children, were killed in twin bomb blasts at a
packed Sufi shrine in Karachi, southern Pakistan, yesterday.

A further 65 people were injured when the suspected suicide bombs exploded at
the entrance to the shrine to Saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi, in the seaside
Clifton district of the city. The site was full of devotees who had gathered
for a weekly meeting.

The government sealed all shrines in the city amid security fears as an
investigation into the attack began.